Sun Coral

[Mystical Lady]

I bought a Sun Coral yesterday... I love them and now I am frustrated and afraid I will lose it....... it hasn't opened fully yet but did a little this morning.... when I tried feeding it mysis with the turkey baster it closed up again .... is there a secret to feeding this thing??? do you feed with long tweezers to each polyp ( or reach in with hand and feed each polyp) or wait till its completely open and 'wash' it with the mysis.......???

 

I also got a anthelia (pom-pom) and geezzzzzz I must be the ONLY ONE that can't raise them.... its hasn't started pulsing.... any suggestions??? I only have 10K lights but I have it as close to them as I can get them...getting 20K tomorrow-will that help??

 

or am I just being impatient and all will be well once they get used to the move?

[extreme_tooth_decay]

I bought a Sun Coral yesterday... I love them and now I am frustrated and afraid I will lose it....... it hasn't opened fully yet but did a little this morning.... when I tried feeding it mysis with the turkey baster it closed up again .... is there a secret to feeding this thing??? do you feed with long tweezers to each polyp ( or reach in with hand and feed each polyp) or wait till its completely open and 'wash' it with the mysis.......???

 

I also got a anthelia (pom-pom) and geezzzzzz I must be the ONLY ONE that can't raise them.... its hasn't started pulsing.... any suggestions??? I only have 10K lights but I have it as close to them as I can get them...getting 20K tomorrow-will that help??

 

or am I just being impatient and all will be well once they get used to the move?

 

 

Those corals take some effort.

 

For me, I had good success with the following:

 

Squirt some cyclopeeze on the coral with a turkey baster. Wait about half an hour,

and then it will be opened up. Then squirt it again. I think mysis may be too big.

I would feed 2 or 3 times a week.

 

Good luck.

 

tim

[dhoch]

As for the anthelia it doesn't typically pulse, Xenia does...Both are closely related.

 

Anthelia will look like: http://www.danj.com/reef/corals_detail.php?coral_id=13

 

Xenia will look like one of these:

http://www.danj.com/reef/corals_detail.php?coral_id=10

http://www.danj.com/reef/corals_detail.php?coral_id=9

http://www.danj.com/reef/corals_detail.php?coral_id=11

 

Dave

[dbartco]

Have a thriving (well mostly thriving) sps tank, and have never had luck keeping anthelia or xenia. oh well...

 

I had a sun coral that I could only get to open up with the lights out. Couldn't get it to "train" to open up any other time.

[dzekunoi]

Well, do not worry. I can not grow Xenia and anthelia as well

 

As for the sun coral - give it some time for now, it will be fine. What I did with mine - I cut a small soda bottle in half and used it as a feeding chamber. Cover the coral with the part with bottleneck, squrt some mysis in and wait. It will smell the food and will open to eat. Then you can add more and not worry that fish steal food.

Trick with cycloreez is good as well.

 

Good luck!

[ChrisS]

Sun corals can be a bit tricky especially when you first get them. I don

[unninair]

I have heard that xenia does not pulse if the pH is bad.

 

Unni

[Mystical Lady]

As for the anthelia it doesn't typically pulse, Xenia does..

Dave

 

 

my bad...... sorry...... I have the pom pom Xenia....... don't know why I put Anthelia......

 

is the lighting enough???

 

and I have low PH so that might have something to do with it.....

suppose to get stuff Friday to raise the PH.......

 

This tank started out a Seahorse tank(was going to buy Seahorses after Xmas)....... but I *really* like the reef stuff.......

Edited December 21, 2006 by Mystical Lady

[Mystical Lady]

got another Sun Coral Question.....

the colony is doing quite well now..... eating like little piggies there are small polyps close to the bottom edges of the colony and I can't seem to get anything to them...

 

when the polyps eat are they feeding the colony or is it 'every polyp for himself'.... ?